Chapter 351: The True Victorious Fighting Buddha Sits Down

Rebirth Transcendence Finger.

It simply means condensing power at the fingertip and pointing an enemy to death with a single finger.

A technique Tang Luo had used before; against enemies with hard shells and astonishing defense, it was more effective than a fist.

In the past, it naturally lacked the might it has now.

It was merely a single finger pointed out.

It didn't even have a name; later, Zhu Bajie, because Tang Luo often spoke of "transcendence" and such, gave it the name "Rebirth Transcendence Finger."

Now, re-executed, the illusory finger shadow behind it is an enhanced version Tang Luo developed after creating the Glazed Nirvana Great Hand Seal.

That dancing flame is the Glazed Flame.

【8】 That dancing flame is the Glazed Flame.

It can be considered a genuine divine ability, a true spell.

A purely offensive, killing divine ability; its power far surpasses the Glazed Nirvana Great Hand Seal.

With one strike, the giant hand composed of resentful spirits shattered with a boom, scattering like waves crashing against a reef.

However, the resentful spirits forming the spray did not seem to have been annihilated by this blow.

Hmph, merely "seemed" so.

The scattered, splashing resentful spirits quickly turned into wisps of black smoke and vanished completely.

The current, enhanced, brand-new Rebirth Transcendence Finger possesses a two-pronged offense: shattering with powerful force, then reinforcing with Glazed Flame to the point of destruction.

At the same moment these resentful spirits vanished completely, the resentful spirit snow that had been drifting down continuously and had already accumulated into a thick layer on the ground finally stopped.

The temperature abruptly returned to normal levels.

Tang Luo slowly withdrew his hand, giving it a light shake.

Given his current injury recovery level, it's best not to recklessly use the enhanced Rebirth Transcendence Finger; pointing that finger out left his own hand somewhat numb.

If he recovered to about fifty percent, he basically wouldn't need to worry about backlash, sequelae, or the like, and could execute it with ease.

"Young Master, is this resentful spirit snow considered over?" Fei Yuan Thirteen asked, looking at Yu Kong Yuan.

As the Young Master of the Yu Kong clan, Yu Kong Yuan's breadth of knowledge was far broader than Fei Yuan Thirteen's.

"If the snow stops falling, then it's over, but..." Yu Kong Yuan hesitated, for she had never heard of a case where resentful spirit snow was stopped because someone forcibly exterminated all the resentful spirits.

There are no records whatsoever of resentful spirit snow being stopped by human intervention.

It has always only stopped after it had "fallen enough."

This duration varies in length, but the shortest record is a full three days.

But now, from the start of the snowfall, to the corpses rising, to the final end, the setting sun had not yet fully set; a stretch of red clouds still hung in the sky.

The sky was only slightly dim; it had not entered night.

"Wait, there's more? What are those?" Yu Kong Yuan looked at the sky; after the resentful spirit snow stopped, golden specks of light actually appeared out of thin air in the sky.

Like raindrops, they drifted down continuously.

"Golden snow? No, it feels like rain?" Yu Kong Yuan couldn't help reaching out to catch them; the golden specks landed on her palm, like fine rain.

"Golden wind and fine rain — congratulations, Master, on accomplishing a great meritorious deed." Ao Yu Lie bowed toward Tang Luo, who was descending slowly in the sky, and spoke with a slight bow.

"Not bad luck." Tang Luo said, "The resentful spirit snow should have been completely wiped out by me."

Achieving some great meritorious deeds occasionally brings forth such visions as golden rain falling from the heavens.

The vision of golden wind and fine rain did not last long; by the time Tang Luo landed on the roof, it had ceased.

Tang Luo estimated that the meritorious power formed this time, if entirely consumed to heal his injuries, could restore him to 3.5 tenths of his uninjured limit.

Less than a day since entering this mission world, and there was such a harvest.

It could be said to be quite satisfactory.

"Senior." Yu Kong Yuan stepped forward, speaking respectfully.

"I threw out a hundred or so survivors just now." Tang Luo said, "You can go receive them back; rest here tonight, the journey to fetch the scriptures isn't urgent."

No need to rush the road through the night.

"Yes!" Yu Kong Yuan said, taking Xiao Tian Quan and Fei Yuan Thirteen to go rescue the survivors.

The current Lake City could be described as "spotlessly clean"; not a single corpse remained.

But the dilapidation after the war, and the bloodstains, still told of what this city had endured.

Night fell; Tang Luo summoned Yu Kong Yuan and inquired about her situation.

Yu Kong Yuan was actually not of the true bloodline of the Yu Kong clan; she was picked up by a passing Yu Kong Xin when she was very young, near a water source, and named Yu Kong Yuan.

Yu Kong Xin had eight sons and over ten grandsons, but no daughters and no granddaughters.

Therefore, she doted on Yu Kong Yuan immensely; besides Yu Kong Yuan herself and Yu Kong Xin, no one else knew Yu Kong Yuan was actually a foundling.

They thought she was a bloodline of Yu Kong Xin's that had been scattered outside.

At that time, the Yu Kong clan, headed by Yu Kong Xin, had a thriving population; although no expert on par with Yu Kong Xin had emerged.

Guarding Lake City should have been no problem; there was no need to specially pick up some extraordinarily gifted child to inherit the Yu Kong clan.

For Ghost Exorcists, only if the bloodline chosen as the first option cannot be passed down would they choose to pass down their secret arts and techniques.

Before the bloodline fails to be passed down, their secret arts and techniques are absolutely impossible to spread outside.

After Yu Kong Yuan was brought back by Yu Kong Xin, she grew up just like an ordinary Young Master — well, more accurately, the most pampered one.

Two years ago, Yu Kong Xin bestowed Fei Yuan Thirteen upon Yu Kong Yuan.

This was a treatment the other grandsons of Yu Kong Xin did not have, but Yu Kong Yuan did not display any extraordinary talent.

Everyone merely attributed it to Yu Kong Xin's doting on Yu Kong Yuan.

They got along like this, in this dangerous chaotic era, doing their utmost to protect their own piece of the world.

It should have continued like this.

The turning point occurred one year ago: Yu Kong Xin fought a great battle with an outside ghost, barely won, and suffered a fatal, mortal wound.

On the day everyone believed Yu Kongxin would die, Yu Kongyuan saved him.

As it turned out, Yu Kongyuan had been having a dream since childhood; in the dream a voice told her to go to the Western Pure Land and obtain the Sutra of Transcendence.

At first the dream was hazy, and the intervals between occurrences were long.

But as time passed, the dream grew increasingly clear, and the intervals grew shorter and shorter.

Before Yu Kongxin's great battle with the ghost that had emerged, Yu Kongyuan could already sense a special power stored within her body.

Reviving Yu Kongxin, who should have died, was the first time Yu Kongyuan consciously used that power.

However, being revived did not mean Yu Kongxin could immediately spring about lively; he lay unconscious for a full half-month before waking.

Half a month was enough time for some things to change.

Yu Kongyuan's rescue of Yu Kongxin was publicized early by the Yu Kong clan to stabilize the people's hearts in Lake City.

At the time they thought this might be a hidden ability of the Yu Kong clan's bloodline.

But later, as they interacted with Yu Kongyuan, the Yu Kong clan discovered she actually had a tremendous connection to the legendary Scripture-Fetcher.

According to certain records, the Scripture-Fetcher indeed possessed the ability to bring the dead back to life.

It was highly likely that Yu Kongyuan was the Scripture-Fetcher!

By the time Yu Kongxin awoke, news related to Yu Kongyuan had already leaked out.

Iron City, not far from Lake City, the Heart-Eye clan learned of the situation.

The common folk did not understand the deeper meaning of Yu Kongyuan reviving Yu Kongxin, but they certainly did.

The appearance of a suspected Scripture-Fetcher, with the power to resurrect the dead, led the already-powerful Heart-Eye clan to choose "better to kill by mistake than to let slip."

"So you're not very clear on your own origins either, you only know your identity and mission?" Tang Luo asked. "It feels like a heavenly mandate."

"Senior, aren't you the same?" Yu Kongyuan asked.

"Oh, I was mandated by someone. A very formidable guy mandated it: you are the Scripture-Fetcher. So I went to fetch scriptures." Tang Luo said.

"Is that so?" Yu Kongyuan said. "Could it be an earlier Scripture-Fetcher?"

So there isn't just one Scripture-Fetcher, but many in succession?

Continuously obtaining the "Sutra of Transcendence" from the Western Pure Land to save the world's people.

Thinking carefully, the commonality in records about Scripture-Fetchers is that they are saviors.

But the times of their appearance, their appearances, and their genders are varied and chaotic, a tangled mess, with many differing accounts.

The reason turns out to be that the Scripture-Fetcher is not a single person, but a "profession" passed down through generations.

Obtaining the Sutra of Transcendence to save the world is not something achieved overnight, but a long "mission."

Requiring generation after generation of Scripture-Fetchers to continuously complete it.

"Was it you who mandated me, Senior?" Yu Kongyuan asked.

"No." Tang Luo shook his head. "But I will indeed protect you on the journey to the Western Pure Land; by the way, I don't know where the Western Pure Land is. Do you?"

"I occasionally have a vague sense of it." Yu Kongyuan said, finding it a bit strange that Tang Luo didn't know where the Western Pure Land was — could it be he had never been there?

Tang Luo nodded. "Then there's no problem. You are this generation's Scripture-Fetcher; I'll handle protecting you, and leave the guiding to you."

"Could it be that only the current Scripture-Fetcher can sense the Western Pure Land's location?" Yu Kongyuan's mind was full of fog.

But facing an incomparably powerful senior, she didn't dare rashly speak up and ask.

After all, their first meeting was not pleasant at all.

Even though Tang Luo's attitude later underwent a one-eighty-degree turn, and he even gave her a cute little cat, saying it could protect her.

Yu Kongyuan still feared Tang Luo more than she respected him.

She was a clever girl who read expressions and assessed the situation; at least since the events of a year ago, she had grown a great deal.

Unlike the loyal-to-a-fault subordinate Fei Yuan Shisan.

When indecisive, draw the sword first; not much brains, likes solving problems with the weapon in hand, muttering things like "hesitation leads to defeat."

Yu Kongyuan solves problems with her head!

The quick-witted young girl did not linger in Lake City long; the next day at noon.

A group rode out of Lake City on horseback, following Yu Kongyuan's sensing, heading for the Western Pure Land to obtain the Sutra of Transcendence.

And Fei Yuan Shisan also got an answer regarding Ao Yulie's identity.

He had never imagined this one would actually be a ghost! A ghost with intelligence, capable of communication, capable of transforming into a horse!

True · Battle-Victorious Buddha's mount.

Battle-Victorious Buddha is Xuanzang's title, same nature as Azure Sky Cang Ying.

If Ao Yulie — who was well-practiced at horse-transforming and smoothly resumed his old trade — knew what Fei Yuan Shisan was thinking, he could probably kick him to the Western Heaven ahead of schedule with one hoof.

The dignified Jade Dragon Third Prince, the most handsome in the Three Realms, actually being compared to a ghost?

But Ao Yulie didn't know; carrying Tang Luo, stepping with light steps, he had recovered the youth of years past, and was happy about it.